The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead and beyond.

Alternative rock became mainstream in the 1990s, but the seeds were being sown much earlier by underground bands in the 1980s.

Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan ...